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Are you the average American?

Here are 20 common characteristics of the average American. From work, to home, to sex, how typical are you? (Data from U.S. Census Bureau unless otherwise noted.)

You were born in the United States. (Only 12.7 percent are foreign born.)

You are a woman. (But there’s almost an equal chance you could be a man. Women make up 50.8 percent.)

You are white. (Despite the diversity of the United States, the population is still 78 percent white. )

You have lived in the same home longer than a year. (More than 84 percent have.)

You speak English at home. (70.9 percent do.)

You are between 18 and 65 years old. (The median age for women is 38.5. The median age for men is 35.8, according to the CIA Factbook.)

You can read. (Nearly all Americans over 15 can read -- 99 percent, according to the CIA Factbook.)

You graduated from high school. (More than 87 percent of adult Americans earned a high school diploma.)

You attended college. (Nearly 57 percent of Americans attended some college, and almost 40 percent have an associate or bachelor’s degree.)

You own your own home. (More than 66 percent of American’s own their abode.)

If you do own your own home, it’s worth about $188,000. (Median value of owner-occupied housing from 2006-2010)

At least two people live in your home. (The 2006-2010 average was 2.59.)

You have a job. (91.7 percent of Americans are employed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.)

It takes you about 25 minutes to drive to work.

You made about $27,000+ last year. (2006-2010 average)

Your household’s income was about $52,000+. (2006-2010 average)

You have enough savings in the bank to live three months or less, according to a 2009 HSBC Bank survey. (61 percent have that much saved, but 38 percent said they don’t have enough saved to last one month.)

You identify yourself as having a religious affiliation. (86 percent do. Down from 1960, when 98 percent did, according to Business Insider.

You don’t smoke. (78 percent of Americans don’t light up. That’s up from 60 percent in 1960, according to Business Insider.)

You eat meat. (Only 3.2 percent of American adults are vegetarian, but an additional 10 percent follow a vegetarian-inclined diet, according to a study by Vegetarian Times.)

You are not obese. (Despite the overweight epidemic in America, 66.1 percent of Americans are not considered obese, according to the CIA Factbook.)

If you are a woman, you’re about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weigh about 164 pounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control. (The average American man is about 5 feet 9.5 inches tall and weighs about 191 pounds. Both men and women in the United States are roughly an inch taller and 25 pounds heavier than they were in 1960.)

You have sex 85 times a year, according to a 2007 Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey. (Americans are far behind the Greeks, who averaged 164 times a year, and the Brazilians, who averaged 145 times year. The Japanese averaged only 48 times)

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